[openib-general] svn patches.

Wed Apr 28 15:10:11 PDT 2004

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:56:38PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > In fact that's one of the things that I'm trying to figure out how to
> > do in a way portable between 2.4 and 2.6.  For 2.6 we clearly want to
> > just use a struct device * (since there are devices we care about on
> > things like a PPC4xx EPB rather than PCI), but the device model and
> > generic DMA mapping API doesn't exist on 2.4.
> 
> And it will not ever get backported either (for good reason, 2.4
> development is over.)  So, I was just lucky in finding the main reason
> why 2.4 support is going to be almost impossible?  :)

Not really. I don't think anyone here wants to get the OpenIB stack into
the Linux blessed 2.4 kernel.

In that case, the code as it is written right now, works fine. It's not
ideal, but I'll cry over uglier code before I cry over this code :)

When the 2.6 fork occurs, obviously things like this need to be fixed
and thankfully 2.6 provides clean ways of fixing it.

JE

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